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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Transitions In Preschool

Transitions are those periods of time when the children are
moving from one activity to the next.

How well your day flows in your preschool classroom can
depend on how well you handle your transitions. Some of the most
stressful parts of a preschool teachers day can begin with transitioning
children from one activity to the next without it all ending up in a total
stressful chaos moment!

Creating short, smooth transitions through out your day will
provide you with more time to be spent in meaningful activities.

·When
it is time to change to the next activity, start with a warning before it’s
time to end that activity. If children know a transition is coming
and has a chance to finish what they are doing, most children are likely to be
agreeable to that change.

·Preschool
children are responsive to routines. Each transition throughout the
day should follow with the same pattern everyday. Each transition
should start the same way and have a few short activities, then end the same
way every time.

·Have
different signals that can be used for different
transitions. Children will know what is next and what is expected of
them when they hear or do the same transition for each part of their day.

Transitions types:

Clean-up

Coming
to circle

Leaving
circle

Washing
hands/meals

Going
outside

Coming
inside

Going from here to there

Going
to relaxing and resting

Waking
up from rest

Use careful planning and considerations when planning
transitions. Appropriate

transitions help children move through the
day with ease.

When children have settled into the familiarity of the
routine, children will be more

cooperative through each transition of the day.

Transition
to Clean Up Time

Before clean up time make sure that you give children a five
minute warning before it is time to clean up. I have a chime
that is hanging in my room and the children know that when they hear the chime
they have five more minutes to finish what they are working on. When
the five minutes is up I start to sing a clean up song. Children
that are still working on a project and would like to return to that project
later; know that I have a table that they can place those unfinished projects
on. This gives children ownership and they are more willing to clean
up lets say the lego’s if they know they can finish their lego car
later. Also if children are working in the block area and they are
hesitant in cleaning up because they have worked so hard on their town, I will
take a digital picture of the structure so they can still admire their handy
work.

Clean up Songs

Do you know what time it is? Author Unknown

Do you know what time it is

What time it is

What time it is

Do you know what time it is it’s
time to clean-up.

Tami put away the blocks

Put away the block

Put away the block

Tami put away the blocks because
it’s time to clean-up

Cody put away the puzzle

Put away the puzzle

Put away the puzzle

Cody put away the puzzle because
it’s time to clean-up

Acknowledge a child that is cleaning something up and sing
their name and what they

are cleaning up. Children that are
acknowledged are more willing to help and clean

up. Children want to
do the right thing.

Twinkle Twinkle clean up time
(:twinkle, twinkle little star)Use a star wand and sing the
song. Move around the classroom waving the
wand. Help children clean up.

Twinkle, twinkle little star
stop and clean up where you are
Time to put the toys away
We'll bring them out another day
Twinkle, twinkle little star
stop and clean up where you are.

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho it’s clean up
time Author Unknown

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

It’s clean-up time you know.

Put the toys away for another day.

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

Keep repeating until the children are done.

Let’s board the clean-up train

Blow a train whistle so the children know that it is time to
board the clean up train. Start in an area that is hard to clean up
like the block area or the dramatic play area. Blow the whistle and
start to sing.

Choo, Choo its time to board the clean up train

Chugga, Chugga, Choo, Choo

Have children form a line behind you and you go around and
clean up the classroom together. This is a great one to start the year off
with. This way you can show the children where things go.

Clean-Up Inspector

When children are just about through cleaning up. Put the inspector
binoculars around your neck and carry the clean-up basket with you. Go
around the room and inspect different centers in the room. Give positive
feed back while going through the different areas. "Inspector like
the way all the blocks have been put on the shelves."
"Inspector see that we need to put some play food in the
baskets." Along the way when you find small items that did not get
put away place them in your clean-up basket. Bring your inspectors
clean-up basket with you to group meeting and see if anyone wants to help the
inspector find the proper home for the items in the basket.

Transition
to Lining Up

Buzz
Buzz Bumble Bee

Buzz, buzz bumblebees,

Flying all around.Stop stand still,

do not move around.

Shh, don’t make a sound.

Buzz, buzz bumblebees

Catch them if you can.

Hurry up, in the jar

Before they sting your hand.

Buzz, buzz bumblebees

Hold your jar real tight.

We will carry them outside

Then let them all take flight

Have children pretend to catch a
buzzing bumble bee.

Drive, Drive, Drive

Drive, drive, drive your car,

All around the town

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Up the hills and down.

Click, click, click your seat belt

Buckle up before we go

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Off to town we’ll go

Turn, turn, turn, the key

Make the engine roar.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Let’s all go to the store.

Press, press, press the pedal

Give the engine gas

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Now we’re going fast.

Turn, turn, turn, the wheel

That is how we steer

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Make a turn right here.

Push, push, push the brake

Make the car slow down

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Now we’re in town.

Beep, beep, beep the horn

Now that we are here

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Let’s all give a cheer!

I have a pretend steering wheel with
a bike horn attached to it. I beep the horn and pretend to drive around
the classroom picking up all the children for outside play.

Train on the Track

Our line needs an Engine

And it needs a caboose

We keep our line straight

And we keep our line loose

No pushing, no shoving

Our hands by our sides

As we walk, walk, walk

In our train line.

Transition to Circle or Group Time

Wiggle Worms

Here are some worms who are, oh, so
sad.

They’ve lost all the wiggles that
they once had.

They wonder if you, just for today.

Would lend them your wiggles so they
can play

Wiggle them up and wiggle them down
(have the children wiggle arms up and down)

Wiggle your worms around and around
(wiggle arms around in a circle)

Wiggle them high and wiggle them low
(wiggle arms high and wiggle arms low)

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